Combined calendar and diary



y 1935 BARTA 2,0,247

COMBINED CALENDAR AND DIARY Filed NOV. 5, 1934 INVENTOR. 1 0 Bfie TA ATTORNEYS Patented July 23, 1935 l by 1 2,009,247,

UNITED STATES? PATENT OFFICE f v i 2,009,247

COMBINED CALENDAR DIARY Leo Barta, New York, N. Y.

Application November 3, 1934, Serial No. 751,307

1 Claim. (Cl. 40-119) The present invention relates to a calendar The cardboard base I is made up of two layers construction and it particularly relates to a com- II, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which layers may bined calendar-diary. be firmly connected together by the binder about An object of the present invention is to prothe edges thereof, and/or by other means. The

5 vide a combined calendar and diary construction upper portion of the combined board H forming 5 which will permit of being hung upon the wall or the base In is provided with the eyelet i2 extendconveniently placed in a certain position on a ing therethrough and peened over at the sides, as desk which will include a daily or weekly diary indicated at l3. or memo pad, and at the same time display the The eyelet I2 is conveniently adapted to be conentire calendar for the year or for additional prenected to a hanging member attached to a wall 10 ceding or subsequent years, as may be desired. (not shown). The lower portion of the rear Another object is to provide a convenient diarycardboard member I I is bent as. indicated at M, calendar construction which will permit of a and is made detachable from the front cardweekly or daily diary being kept with retention of board element ll so that it may be bent outthe diary entries from week to week or day to day wardly to form the leg l 5 which may be utilized 15 without interfering with the keeping of the diary for supporting the calendar combination upona during the week or day, as the case may be. desk, as indicated in Fig. 1. It is limited from ther objects will app r during h cour f undue movement by the string member 50. y the following specification. On the lower part of the base of the element 30 In accomplishing the above bj s it has b n i9 is attached the pad I6 consisting of a number found desirable to provide a relatively stiff cardof leaves 52, one for each of the weeks of the board member carry g a D ing a daily year, as indicated at IT, in Figure l. A daily 0 W y ry and an ann l calendar side by diary may also be employed if desired having a side on the opposite face thereof. sheet for each day or two days at a time.

2.3 The pad a the calendar are preferably p The leaves are bound together at their upper tioned at the lower part of the face and the upper part of the pad l6 by th fabric is nd a. split part of the face of the cardboard base member is pin I9 having the embossed head 20. The split permitted to carry advertising matter. pin 59 preferably extends through the top of the The base member may be provided with means ad, as indicated at 2|, (see Fig, 3) and l to permit its being hung p the a d it through the double thickness of cardboard, as 30 y also be provided With a leaf leg means to indicated at 22, and its ends are bent outwardly be separated from the cardboard base to permit as indicated t 23, and covered by the fabric or the Cardboard e to be Stood upon a desk paper cover 24 on the rear of the base element It].

P The horizontal slot 25 is provided slightly above A particular feature of the present invention the pad 3 and 1; has idth 26 (see Fig. 1)

w 111 the Provlswn, a dlrectly abOVe slightly greater than the width 21 (see also Fig.1)

the dlary pad through whlch the used pages of of the leaves [1 of the pad. The leaves after h dlary pad may be Inserted when thew respec' being used may be inserted through said slot 26,

twe day or Week has f as indicated at 28, so that they would be readily 40 The above and other obJects W111 appear more available for reference. The binder around the 40 clearly when taken in connection with the acedges as indicated at 29 may be of different companying drawing which illustrates a preferred 0 1 th f L embodiment of the inventive idea. 9Ored mafieljlal an t e acmg paper be I th d in give an artistic appearance and the blank space H e raw 3! may be utilized for advertising material.

da i ii 1 1S a top perspectlve Vlew of the calen- The annual calendar as shown at 32 may be 45 Figure 2 is a transverse cross sectional View of replaced by a Weekly calendar 9 may be complethe calendar pad upon the line of Fig. 1, mented by a calendar for previous or subsequent and years. 5 Figure 3 is a similar sectional view upon an en- It 15 Obvious that many changes may be made larged Scale in the calendar construction shown, all of which Referring to the drawing the base cardboard will h Within t purview of the p ese t in- I0 is selected of a stock which will be sufliciently 511131011, and & Smgle layer of dboard may be rigid and is preferably covered by relatively thin utilized instead of the double layer H, and the paper or fabric. element l5 maybe replaced by another leg at- 55 tachment, and if desired a plurality of pads 16 may be employed.

What is claimed is:

A combined diary and calendar comprising a 5 base construction consisting of two sheets of cardboard, a front sheet and a backing sheet which are united at the upper end of the base, the lower portion of the backing sheet being unattached to the front sheet, a transverse bend line being provided at the upper end of said unattached lower portion of the backing sheet, said lower portion being pivotally swingable away from the other sheet, whereby said lower portion may serve as a leg to permit the calendar to be positioned uprightly upon a desk top, said combination carrying a diary pad and spaces for the application of a calendar and advertising, the top of the pad being attached to the united portion of the two sheets of cardboard slightly above said transverse bend line, and said base being provided with a horizontal slot through said united sheets slightly above the diary pad or" a greater width than the diary leaves through which said diary leaves may be placed after usage, said leaves after insertionthrou'gh said slot lying on top and outside of said leg.

LEO BARTA. 

